RLCF Sermons

Unbelief is framing God's grace "check" on the wall. Faith is seeing your current tribulation as a trade opportunity to cash that check for eternal gold. You can be sure you've received a counterfeit if God's love to you doesn't then flow through you to others!

1. The “god” you know... is the “god” you will be to your children. 2. The amount of mercy you believe you have been shown by God is the amount of mercy you will show to your children. 3. Your kids say and do the darnedest things... because they imitate you. 4. The words you speak to your children now will make or break their relationship with you later. 5. The small battles for your children that you neglect now are the big wars in their lives that they will have to fight later.

Remember that God looks at you for who you will be – glorified – as if it’s already who you are. The secret to an overwhelmingly conquering life is abiding in the silent love of God.

Never get so comfortable anywhere in this world, that there does not arise from within you a groaning for the redemption of your body! A "Christ-ian" is found where Christ is. Yet, many who call themselves Christians are satisfied to see Christ on the cross, and grieve and be sorrowful for His sake, but never want to be anywhere near Him, never want to be on that cross with Him.

The choices you make in life come from your mindset – what your mind is set on. If you make decisions in your life based on what you think is best for you, you’re walking according to the flesh. Walking according to the Spirit means being constantly dependent on the life of the Spirit to direct and empower my life.

The Law of the Letter will never bring you victory over sin. Only the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus does. Thank God He does not do away with our body of sin, because without it we would not have a living sacrifice which is acceptable to Him.

Be the "spitting image" of your Father... in love.

Spiritual Fatalism is the characteristic of in-between slaves. The every day choices of your heart determine who your master is. Sin has a guaranteed paycheck - DEATH!

Salvation to the uttermost is to receive resurrection power; and that comes only if we live like Jesus in a life of unbroken koinonia. If there's slavery to sin at one end and an "uttermost salvation" at the other, you can be sure there's every kind of counterfeit in between!

Grace is the highest denomination in God’s currency. Baptism is the death certificate to show your old slave master. If you claim to be "born again" but never really died in the first place, you've been slipped a counterfeit!